The fourth edition of My French Film Festival has been set for January 17 through February 17, 2014. This year’s edition of the worldwide online fest, which saw 750,000 registrants from 189 countries streaming the fest’s selection of 10 competition films, three non-competition and 10 short films (all French, naturellement), has announced its five winners.
The five award-winning film will be shown on Air France for six months starting this summer:
- Public Prize: A
Bottle in the Gaza Sea, directed by Thierry Binisti (feature)- International Director’s Prize (jury composed of Emanuele
Crialese, Lucrecia Martel and Wang Xiaoshuai, presided by Michel Hazanavicius):
Leader-Sheep, directed by Christian Rouaud (feature)- International Press Prize (jury composed of Corless Kleron
(Sight & Sound, UK), Cristina Piccino (Il Manifesto, Italy), Dennis Lim
(Moving Image Source, USA), Diego Batlle (La Nacion, Argentina), Julie Rigg
(freelance, Australia), Laisa Yusipova (Izvestia, Russia), Miriam Hollstein
(Die Welt, Germany), Mohamad Kadry (Khaleej Time, UAE), Salvador Liopart Garcia
(La Vanguardia, Spain), Shen Yi (Oriental Morning, China)): The Pirogue,
directed by Moussa Touré (feature)- Numericable Social Networks Prize (jury composed of 100 Internet
users from 20 different countries on Facebook and Twitter, presided by Nikki
Finke from deadline.com): On Air, directed by Pierre Pinaud (feature)- Beauty and the Beat, directed by Yann Le Quellec (short),received all the short films prizes: the Public Prize, the
Social Networks Prize, and the International Press Prize.
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